The Big D

Last weekend, we went down to the Big D (aka Dallas) to go to the Utah v. TCU game. We stayed with my brother, Mark, and his cute family. We just so happened to be there for our niece Abby's 6th birthday. On Friday night, we helped Jenny with the birthday party and it was a real treat. Abby had 13 little friends over for her party and they were all so cute and energetic, emphasis on the energetic. Ryan was the only boy in the house for most of the party with 18 girls, brave guy! The party was a sleepover party...but the girls didn't really sleep over so they just came in their pajamas, ate breakfast for dinner, made build a bear stuffed animals and played games. It was really fun to be there!

On Saturday morning, Ryan and I went into Fort Worth for College Gameday that came for the game. I think I only saw about 10 Utah fans there but the TCU fans were pretty nice to us for the most part. We met up with our good friends, Ezra and Shannon, who are big TCU fans. It was so fun to see them again since they moved away from DC. Ezra even stuck up for us when some TCU fan got mad at us for being there (he was drunk though so he wasn't too hard to get rid of...) Yep, there were a lot of people there that were drunk, and it was only about 9:00 a.m. Ah, good times.

Shannon and me (take note of the TCU Horned Frog's hand sign...so weird...)

Ryan and Ezra

Ryan hung the Utah flag over the crowds...he was not popular. Oh well. GO UTES!

College Gameday

Ryan wanted to put the Ute flag on the horned frog mascot...a TCU fan offered to take our picture and then felt a little guilty for actually taking it. We appreciated it though.

My brother Troy flew in for the game too and it was fun to see him. Troy, Mark, Ryan and I headed into the game and met up with our other friends that came in for the game from DC. The Utes were slaughtered in the game and we were shown why TCU really is the better team this y ear. Even though we got killed, we still had a lot of fun and we are really glad we went! TCU just better represent the Mountain West Conference well in a bowl game!

Before the game as you can see by our smiles

TCU completely sold out their stadium and it was a big deal. Then we realized why they sold out...they bussed in a TON of kids for the game. And they all sat behind us. I gave glares to a few of them as they flipped coins at my head and threw popcorn on people. Here are all the buses waiting to pick people up after the game. We found it humorous!

Really, the best part of the trip was seeing these three adorable little nieces of ours...

Molly

Lydia

Abby

Thanks Mark & Jenny for letting us stay with you!!!

Other updates and Halloween

A couple of Saturdays ago, I ran my 5k that I talked about a few posts back. I will use the word "ran" loosely, however. I was still a little bit off because of my food poisoning episode and the terrain was a bit more hilly than I expected. However, I finished. And I got a better time than my last 5k, which was not hard to beat since my sis and I walked almost the entire thing. The weather was spectacular and the scenery was well worth it. I stole this picture off of my co-worker Missy's blog (thanks Missy!) because her husband cheered us on and took pictures. There is a great one of Ryan right before he tripped that I will have to get from Missy. :)

Me, Missy, Tilly

As for exciting news...Ryan and I purchased our tickets to go and see my parents in Argentina for Christmas and we are thrilled. We get to see my fabulous and cute parents, tour their mission, and hopefully see some penguins up close since we hear that they wander around a lot down there. It will be a perfect Christmas! I have never been to South America and I cannot wait for December to come.

The cute parentals that I will get to see soon!!

For another drastic change of subject, last night we went to a really fun Halloween party that some of our friends organized. I dressed as a flapper and Ryan dressed as a mobster. Our good friends Mandy and Trent joined us and we were so happy to get to hang out with them! They dressed as Princess Peach and Mario and it was fabulous! Thanks to Mandy for providing the essentials for our costumes!!

Our friends had some fabulous costumes and we had so much fun at the party. My favorite costume was our friend Allison who dressed as Octomom. She carried 8 dolls around and it was awesome! Her husband dressed as TMZ reporter...it was the most inventive idea and I loved it!

Here is a picture of some of the ladies and then some of the guys. Thanks everyone for the party!!

San Diego

At the beginning of October (yep, it takes me awhile to blog), my sister and I met up in San Diego for a long weekend girls trip. We had a fabulous time and it was great to spend time together, especially in a location such as San Diego! Both of our hubbies thought we were crazy because we spent a significant amount of time hanging out in our hotel room watching movies. Megs and I are a lot alike so it was a very easy going vacation because we were both content to read or watch a movie after a leisurely day of seeing a few sites, eating a lot of food and shopping.

I left DC really early on Friday morning and I was supposed to arrive at the same time as Megs, who was coming from Utah. I was not so fortunate and got stuck in Memphis for 6 long hours because the plane we were supposed to have ran out of fuel and had to divert to Nashville. Then a huge storm hit and no one could get out in the weather. However, there was a high speed police chase going on in Texas that kept our terminal captivated. Delta should be very grateful that there was an entertaining police chase going on because people cared more about the police chase than yelling at the gate attendant. Oh well, I was entertained.

I finally got to San Diego and Megs picked me up from the airport and we immediately went to In and Out for dinner. Everything was all better after that...In and Out does that to people. Outside of In and Out, we saw this interesting van:

Do you really need a divorce that fast? I wonder if they run their office out of the van?

Then we went shopping (round 1 of 3, or maybe 4, possibly 5, I can't remember). Megs is having her 2nd baby in December and so we went into a couple maternity stores. I discovered that they had a fake belly in the dressing room. I was curious what I would look like so I tried it on and Megs took a picture. Pretty sure the ladies in the store thought we were crazy but whatever.

On Saturday, we went to the San Diego temple. What a beautiful place!

Then we went shopping. Again. I got this very cute wallet that I am still excited about almost a month later.


Then we went and got pedicures.


On Sunday, we went to church and then we wandered around Balboa Park.

Sometimes, it takes way too much effort to look cute.

After that we went and ate AMAZING Mexican food. Wow is really all that I can say. I miss having good Mexican food because it just really isn't the same out here.

On Monday, we went and saw a movie, went to the beach, went to the mall, and ate more food.

This was priceless...cute maternity picture thwarted by cold ocean water...

On Tuesday, we had to go home and say goodbye to each other until Thanksgiving. It was so fun to spend time with my sis, she is fabulous. Next year we hope to convince our husbands to let us do another trip and to hopefully plan it when all three of our sisters-in-law can join us too! We missed you Jamie, Andrea and Jenny. Next year we want all of you to come!! Thanks Megs for coming, I heart you.